Detention Basin Helps End Lawsuit

WOOD DALE — A lawsuit that Wood Dale has fought for decades has come to an end.

DuPage Circuit Judge Robert Kilander this week signed a consent decree that calls for the city to build a detention basin and to pay monetary damages to Ralph Madonna.

In 1976, Madonna charged that a subdivision caused his unincorporated property at 5 N 140 Janis Pl. to flood. Madonna, who is a former alderman, said the city's engineering studies for the subdivision were faulty and that his property flooded because there was no detention basin in the subdivision.

The decree states that the city must build a detention basin on land it owns north of Madonna's property. It also calls for Madonna's parcel to be annexed.

The amount of monetary damages to be paid to Madonna was not disclosed.